Calculate Hard Drive Space For Your DVDs - HD Nation Clips

How much hard drive space will you need to archive your entire movie collection? We do the math for you, and suggest a few solutions to hook up that storage to your machine, from a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition 6-Bay, to Sony's 400 Disc Blu-ray/DVD/CD Player, or the new Drobo FS. Watch the video to hear all your options for reaching your film collection by mouse.

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[SCARREDMIND]

@Thedougler303 less then 200gig.

depends on the native rez, playtime & compression you use.

standard dvd's are usually under 720x576 resolution, so they arent hd by any means.

[SCARREDMIND]

the dvds can be ripped into 700 to 1200 meg avi

the bd can be ripped to mp4 in mkv container with sizes from 1.6 to 2.5 gig.

[thebeetalls]

you could easily compress all those 8gb dvd's with handbrake to 2-3gb with no loss in quality, and the blu rays can go down to 8gigs with very little loss. so 4 2tb drives would easily cover it. it would take a long time to encode all those vids tho(about 3 hours per dvd with a modern quad core). also, free programs like dvdshrink can handle dvds perfectly fine, but blu-ray ripping would need something like anydvd HD.

[cabrita309]

@Thedougler303

Really?

8GBs max for each DVD...

So 200x8GB = 1,600GBs or 1.56TBs

[Thedougler303]

i have 200 dvd how much spaces do i need?

[sweetypie000]

have you any idea how long it will take to rip 428 dvds and 128 bluray disks ?

lmao

no vb <3 ? :(

[HackMan350]

SECOND!!!!

[enrock487]

First!